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Fandom: DCU (Batman-centric)
Pairings/Characters: Dick Grayson/Jason Todd; Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, Bruce Wayne
Rating: Mature
Length: 25k words
Creator Links: [archiveofourown.org profile] victoriousscarf, [tumblr.com profile] victoriousscarf
Theme: Spies & Assassins, Complete AUs, Historical AUs, Historical Settings, Politics

Summary: It's like this: Standing on other sides of a battlefield, exchanging looks and cigarettes and memories and bullets, pretending you don't care, you never cared, and it doesn't matter that suddenly you're looking at each other over a gun.

Or: Dick and Jason might have known how to destroy each other, it was just never supposed to like this, ducking in and out of alleyways and drop sites, watching rockets launch to the moon, and standing next to a wall between two halves of the world.


Reccer's Notes: This is one of my favourite DCU AUs. Victoriousscarf writes Cold War espionage with a deft hand, jumping between decades. The characterization is excellent (especially exploring the universe of this AU, and Dick's relationships and complicated emotions). There's something captivating in how JayDick are enemies but still drawn together, both by their shared past and mutual attraction.

Content Notes: Discussion of the Holocaust, anti-Romanyism, and antisemitism. Details: (skip) Dick Grayson is Romani and a Holocaust survivor (discussed frankly in-text, but there are no explicit scenes of the Holocaust). Two uses of anti-Romani slur. Bruce Wayne is Jewish, and there is one scene where of antisemitism directed towards him (directly challenged by characters). Canon-typical violence. Period-typical politics (and implied structural homophobia). Author provides references and resources in notes.

Fanwork Links: Smoke in Your Eyes and Stars in Your Heart by victoriousscarf on AO3

Date: 2023-07-08 02:43 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] minoanmiss
one, this story sounds marvelous. two, your icon is so beautiful I had to comment.

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